Alone Again Lyrics

In a little while from now
If I'm not feeling any less sour
I promised myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby towerAnd climbing to the top
Will throw myself off
In an effort to make it clear to who
Ever what it's like when you're shatteredLeft standing in the lurch, at a church
Where people are saying
My God that's tough, she stood him up
No point in us remainingMay as well go home
As I did on my own
Alone again, naturallyTo think that only yesterday
I was cheerful, bright and gay
Looking forward to, but who wouldn't do
The role I was about to playBut as if to knock me down
Reality came around
And without so much as a mere touch
Cut me into little piecesLeaving me to doubt

All about God and His mercy
For if He really does exist
Why did He desert meIn my hour of need?
I truly am indeed
Alone again, naturallyIt seems to me that
There are more hearts
Broken in the world
That can't be mendedLeft unattended
What do we do? What do we do?Now looking back over the years
And what ever else that appears
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to have cried the tearsAnd at sixty five years old
My mother, God rest her soul
Couldn't understand, why the only man
She had ever loved had been takenLeaving her to start with a heart
So badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spokenAnd when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally
Alone again, naturally